He has demonstrated a pdf viewer in IE with the save button being disabled.

That made me curious if there is round about solution for acheiving this. like writing custom plugin for IE or injecting javascripts in pdf or anything else tat i am not aware of, which i would like to know

I am not trying to restrict the save , when opened in pdf viewer.

I want to know the answer of one more option. When we remove the file menu buttons from the viewer, the user can still say "Ctrl+shft+S" to save the file. Can we programmatically overwrite this save shortcut , when tried on the IE ( not the PDF viewer).

I would like to know.

Its hard to believe that still there is something that cant be achieved through programming

In that case, they are using a custom PDF viewer - not the standard Adobe Reader. Also, that doesn't prevent the user from right-clicking on the link in the browser and just doing a "Save link to disk...". Or for the person who really wants the file, looking at the page source and just loading the URL being passed. So there are always ways to get the PDF...the important thing is protecting the actual content NOT the method of access. (also note that the FileOpen product is ALSO doing DRM to protect the content, as I am recommending).

what is your attitude about lrosenth? maybe all that fire should be reserved for figuring out how your company (adobe) can provide digital publishers with a reliable, affordable and easy to use (for both publishers and readers) DRM solution

I disagree. I also work for a healthcare company and have a problem similar to Babu's with similar restrictions. We don't want the PDF saved at all. DRM is not what we are looking for. Also it may be possible to work around this by using screen print, but I am not looking to prevent users from complicated hacks - I just want to prevent the PDF form from being saved in a basic way. My research so far says that Adobe requires that LiveCycle be purchased to control and manipulate PDFS, but iTextSharp will do it with a little development effort.

Thank you for posting that, but the reply in that post is just baffling, as it describes two things, neither of which will have the slightest effect on the bueiness problem. To lola32011: many people have this problem and wish to solve it. This does NOT make it possible to solve it.

I had a very complicated discussion with a colleague that is a very skilled Web Developer. The problem about the security of web content is pretty difficult.

We came to the conclusion that this problem is about humans and not programmability. It is impossible to secure any content after it has been made available to the user, other than making things difficult without proper authorized software. Still, you cannot blame the user from doing something that is normally permitted by the software environment.

I think that this post is not about ultra-high security, but instead people just want to prevent the ability to store the PDF by using a built in function like Save. They just want to make the users understand that the content is not intended to be stored permanently when it is displayed in a pop-up, for example. That’s all.

Anyways, this is something that can be programmed in a matter of hours and then integrated in the following versions of PDF and Adobe Reader.

You can prevent saving a type of archive, using windows file screen, security permitions or other server tools. However, this would block saving ANY pdf, not just this one in your application. But this has nothing to do with the adobe's software, though.